Roman Imperial Ideology and the Gospel of John (repost)
Roman Imperial Ideology and the Gospel of John By Lance Byron Richey
Publisher: Catholic Biblical Association of America 2007 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 0915170434 | PDF | 4 MB
Publisher: Catholic Biblical Association of America 2007 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 0915170434 | PDF | 4 MB
This book was originally the author’s dissertation directed by Dr. Julian Hills at Marquette University and completed in 2004. The introduction suggests the work’s thesis, that John’s Gospel is “a conscious effort on the part of John to address issues which would unavoidably have been raised for his community by the Roman Imperial Ideology, or, as it is more commonly called, Augustan Ideology” (xii). This “complex and considerably varied set of beliefs, practices and claims about the nature and source of temporal power in imperial Rome … presented the emperor or princeps as the central figure of the empire on whom [its] continued peace and prosperity … depended” (xiv).